Relaxing Inspiration

I was exhausted and at loose ends. You know the feeling. It has a way of creeping up on you and body slamming you. So when we found Cheryl Wyatt's newest release, Steadfast Soldier at Wal-Mart when we were there buying lettuce for our lunch salad, I called dibs on it. My girls probably thought I was bluffing, but I wasn't! Even though I have about five things that I needed to do, I took the day off and read Cheryl's book.

I'm only half done with it because I'm savoring it. It's that good. But hers always are. (She's one of my favorite authors and I love the names Ivan and Mary. I get it! hehe) But anyway... We usually end up sitting at church for well over an hour every Sunday evening so the kids can be involved with the activities and today, after I did the one thing I HAD to do, I read. When I walked into church I realized I had found the answer to the question I've been mulling over for a YEAR... How to fix the seemingly psycho heroine of the story I finished working on last year. Reading Steadfast Soldier circled me around so I could see the answer.

I am ecstatic and cannot wait to get to work on that story again!

What I thought would be a wonderful day of nothing but relaxing with a good book turned out to be a wonderful day of relaxing with a good book that left me anxious to get to work again.

After four months of being busy with other writing and discouragement with my fiction, I feel like I've been given a huge gift. Last week I was assured that it's okay to be an SOTPer and now God's shown me how to fix that character so she's presentable. I'm telling ya, God is so incredibly good! Only He could orchestrate those two details like He did! I may actually have something to pitch now.

Since Patty quit running from God's call on her life and surrendered her pen to Him, she's been happy. Life is never dull as she juggles being a wife, mom to a handful of kids and a couple of Capuchin monkeys, life on the road, and being a writer. As long as she's obeying God's leading, she figures that sanity is a novelty and not a necessity in the zoo she lives in. Patty clings to the promise that God will enable her to do what He asks of her, otherwise she would be living with the scaredy cats at the Funny Farm and not just occasionally visiting. You can find her on Instagram, too, where she daily sneaks in a few sane moments.